Genetic characterization of Atlantic sturgeon stocking material used in Lithuania to restore the Baltic Sea population

Background. Recent genetic analyses of fish remains, obtained from archaeological sites, revealed that more than 2000 years ago the Baltic Sea was inhabited by sturgeons closely related to the Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus Mitchill, 1815. As some wildlife populations of the Atlantic sturge...

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Main Authors: D. Butkauskas, A. Pilinkovskij, A. Ragauskas, V. Kesminas, D. Fopp-Bayat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-09-01
Series:Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
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Online Access:https://aiep.pensoft.net/article/26904/download/pdf/